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| Thread ID: 99361 | 2009-04-29 04:10:00 | Time for a PC upgrade. Want your input! | wratterus (105) | Press F1 |
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| 769401 | 2009-04-29 04:10:00 | Well, the faithful beast is around 2 years old now. Got a new graphics card though (Asus GTX260) and a brand new Silverstone 750w PSU. I'm really out of touch with what's best value for money at the moment. Current components that I'm looking at changing are: AMD X2 6000+ (was the gruntiest AMD processor you could buy at the time). 3 x 1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 Asus M2N32 Sli deluxe wifi edition. I like AMD, and I'm eyeing up the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition ($589) but I know I really ought to switch to Intel. I'm pretty sure I will get booed out of the forum if I decided to go with AMD for a gaming PC anyway... :p Soo.... :D $1400 (ish) is the budget I'm aiming for... PC will be used mainly for intensive apps (Think Adobe CS3 masters suite and vegas video) and quite a bit of gaming. Outputting to a 22" 1080p monitor. Want 4GB of Ram, lowest latency possible. Preferably Corsair. Will more than likely be running Win7 x64. (Or Vista Business x64). I've got a nice watercooling setup for the CPU, so overclocking should be all good, if the grunty PC gurus recommend that. :D Have a massive thermaltake case. +1 internets for the person with the winning configuration. :D |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 769402 | 2009-04-29 04:19:00 | (Ducking :lol: in a silly mood) Warehouse - $900 and will do every thing apart from work - OH and as a bonus a free 90 day trial of Norton Internet Security :p | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 769403 | 2009-04-29 04:23:00 | Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz quad core CPU Socket LGA1366 $584.21 4GB DDR3 SDRAM $126.23 Asustek P6T Deluxe X58 DDR3 Crossfire+SLi Motherboard $617.85 $1328.29 |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 769404 | 2009-04-29 04:26:00 | LOL Wainui, I'll ship it up to you to fix for me. :D The Norton trial I'll save up for your Christmas pressie. Thanks Junkie. What RAM were you looking at for that price? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 769405 | 2009-04-29 04:30:00 | 4gig ddr3 ram. upon further inspection found this Corsair 3x 1GB DDR3-1333 XMS3 Tri Channel Kit CL9 TR3X3G1333C9 $137.86 |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 769406 | 2009-04-29 05:09:00 | Is that an AM2+ board?, you could go for the new 45nm X4 955BE...AMD now has a CPU to challenge all of Intels cpus except the i7 anandtech.com |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 769407 | 2009-04-29 05:31:00 | Yeah you may as well go triple channel since the board would handle it $220 for 6gb of Gskill from Playtech Plenty of options there and core i7 all they way!!! |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 769408 | 2009-04-29 05:33:00 | AMD post. :D Yeah the board I have now is AM2+ compatible...that's the exact CPU I was actually looking at too... :nerd: That processor would be good cause it's AM3 compatible too, eg will work with DDR3 RAM. www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz The AMD boards seem a bit lacking in the DDR3 RAM speed department. Might have to wait for native 1333mhz RAM boards... |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 769409 | 2009-04-29 05:52:00 | Intel post. :D Ok then...I had momentarily forgotten about Triple Channel. www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz www.computerlounge.co.nz Looks very very nice. Much nicer than an AMD setup. Doesn't look as if I'd be gaining a lot going up to the P6T Deluxe as I'm not interested in a SLI or Crossfire setup, and I'll be using watercooling so the fancy cooling stuff on the board will be of limited value. Anyone know what the performance of the i7 920 would be in comparison with the AMD II X4 955? |
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| 769410 | 2009-04-29 06:14:00 | Hold on. Why would you buy it retail? Surely you can get the parts through your work? | pctek (84) | ||
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